Sand-box for cars



NITE STATES PATENT F-FICEe ADOLPH GARING, OF ALLENTOWN, ASSIGNOR OF ON E-HALF TO CLINTON H. FULLER, OF CATASAUQUA, PENNSYLVANIA.-

SAN D=BOX FOR CARS.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patenta No. 528,904, dated November 6, 1894,

Application filed June 8, 1894. Serial No.513,979. (No model.)

To (MZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH GARING, a citix zen of 'the United States, residing at Allentown, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sand-Boxes for Cars- Valve and means for Operating the same-of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to sand boxes for cars; ro and especially to the valveand discharge tube of the same.

My improvement is applicable to street, and other cars, also to locomotives. It is designed for promoting traction in motor-driven cars,

5 or for rendering the brakes ,effective on all cars, when rails and wheels are wet.

My invention consists in so constructing the discharge tube, that it maybe hung in, and form a jointed socket-valve to the diseharge tube; and so Operating the same that when the flow of sand is stopped at thehopper, the bottom opening of the discharge tube is closed by a stop plate, which will prevent moisture, dirt, snow and water, from entering the tube, to freeze and stop it up. The tube, and valve may be operated by foot, orhand. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 a vertical section, of so much of a street car, as required to show my invention connected thereto. Fig. 2 is a front View of the sand box, valve and discharge tube. Fig.

3 is a section of Fig. 2 taken on the line X, Y, Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout 'the several Views.

The Construction of my invention is as follows:

Referring to the drawings, 2 represents the 40 sand box, which when used on street cars, is

usually placed under the seat 1, and fastened to the car floor 15.

3 is the cylinder valve, fitted in the hanger 4, and hung under the floor 15, in which is cut a passage 16, that registers with passage 16', when the valve 3 is in position as shown in Fig. 3.

I 17 are flange-heads, for the ends of the cylv inder valve. They are fitted in the ends of the cylinder valve, and fastened to the valve by pin s, and also fastened to the shaft 10, to which is fixed arm 9, and by connecting rod 8, connected' to the bell crank lever 7, hung on a stud in bracket 11` fastened to the car floor. The bell-crank lever 7, is connected to presser 5 5 bar 6.

14 is a spiral wire spring. One end is connected to a fixed bracket 12, the other end to the connecting rod 8.

It is obvious, that the form of construction may be yaried, without departing from the prineiple of my invention.

The operation is as follows--Sand being placed in the box 2, the tension of spring 14:, Will cause the discharge tube 5, to assume the position shown by dotted lines, Fig. 1, thus closingthe passage 16, (Fig. 3.) When the motor man, or driver desires to sand the track, he places his foot on bar 6, and by pressing it down, as shown in Fig. 1, moves the discha'ge 7o tube 5, to a position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and opens the valve and passage 16, as shown in Fig. 3, and sand will be discharged on the track as shown in Fig. 1. By removingthe foot, the spiral spring 14, will place the discharge tube 5, in a position as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The stop bracket 13, closes the end of tube 5, prevents moisture, dirt, snow and v water from entering the tube, freezing 'and stopping the flow of sand.

Having as above'fully described myinvention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- In sand boxes for sanding car tracks, the combination of a hopper, a hanger, a circular rotary valve depending from said hanger andregistering with opening in said hopper, a discharge tube rotating with said valve and adapted to be closed at discharge end by a stopbracket when thrown up out of operative i position, substantially as described.

ADOLPH GARING.

Witnesses z H. H. HOLM, A. N. ULRICH. 

